2011/9/14 Allin Cottrell <cottr...@wfu.edu>: > On Tue, 13 Sep 2011, Allin Cottrell wrote: > >> I have found the relevant difference between gtk 2.24.5 and 2.24.6, which >> has the effect -- on my system at least -- that the filter selection combo >> box is not displayed correctly in the gtk file chooser when using 2.24.6. >> >> It's the added material in the function filter_create(), in >> gtkfilechooserdefault.c. I'm attaching a diff (simply commenting out the new >> stuff), which if applied to 2.24.6 makes it work correctly for me. > > One further point: I've now tried compiling the same code against GTK > 3.0.12, and I'm not seeing the problem with the wrongly ellipsized strings > in the filechooser filter combo. > GTK 2.24.6 is the only release which exhibits this problem. > > I have been able to work around the issue with 2.24.6 with a hack: locate > the filter combo among the children of the file chooser dialog by recursing > gtk_container_foreach(), and use gtk_widget_set_size_request() to set its > width to something sensible. > > I might mention that the installed pango is 1.29.3, in case that makes any > difference. > > -- > Allin Cottrell > Department of Economics > Wake Forest University, NC > >
You should really file a bug report. It's the right thing to do Regards Bernhard _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list